The six senses will be linked and motivated, through six specific tools and related activities during the exchange programme:
- 1. collection of media material;
- 2. learning about cultural differences;
- 3. exploration of different communication methods;
- 4. learning how to work;
- 5. nurturing individual potentials;
- 6. developing a network
The exchange programme will also encourage individual young people and youth workers to
- learn how to address barriers and encourage greater involvement of young people with epilepsy in their associations
- meet and discuss the generation of more effective projects through their international co-operation
- strengthen their national associations
The interactive methodologies that will be used for the main themes and activities include:
- research (e.g. searching for material via the internet or in libraries);
- interviews (e.g. interviewing young people about epilepsy):
- analysis (e.g. reading and identifying the main themes in the material);
- discussion (e.g. group work concerning particular issues, chat room discussions);
- team work (e.g. developing new YOUTH programme project ideas);
- presentations to the seminar group;
Intercultural learning is built into the learning process that the seminar will promote and through the very nature of the participants. We will be exploring the theme of exclusion for people with epilepsy in different countries in Europe and in order to understand this process texts on exclusion in general will be used as a conceptual base. This will heighten awareness of the group to issues of exclusion as applies to other (e.g. racial) excluded groups.
As an objective for our seminar we hope to be able to generate YOUTH programme project ideas that could include the Mediterranean countries, particularly to the south of the Mediterranean. We have already made contact with epilepsy groups in Morocco, Tunisia, Israel and Turkey to inform them about the seminar. The contact with the African Mediterranean counties will be further strengthened by an international epilepsy congress to take place in Lisbon in October 2003 where many African countires will be represented. The results of the EYiE of Horus project will be a poster topic for the Epilepsy and Society conference held in Malta March 2004 and it is intended that this will lead to the possibility of future youth exchange where we will be able to work more directly on fighting stigma.
